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echo: 80xxx
to: CRAIG HART
from: TIM HUTZLER
date: 1997-04-11 21:35:00
subject: Re: FS and GS registers

??>What is the purpose of the FS and GS registers?
CH>The same as the ES register. Intel just decided to give 386+ CPU's
CH>a couple of extra segment registers for no reason other than they
CH>felt like it. You can use them yourself as you like - there is no
CH>"special" system use of them (unlike CS, DS & SS). Most assemblets
CH>for 386 fully support FS & GS.
Hmmm. Thanks.
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